Juan Manuel Heredia is a Professor and the Director of Portland State University’s School of Architecture. He studied architecture at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and practiced in that city before moving to the United States in 1999. He completed an M.S. and a Ph.D. in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. His research and writing focus on (but are not limited to) the architecture of the twentieth century, especially that of Mexico. He is the author of The First Modern Building in Mexico (Arquine 2020), co-editor with Nicholas Temple and Andrzej Piotrowski of The Routledge Handbook on the Reception of Classical Architecture (Routledge, 2019), and co-author with Miquel Adrià of Juan Sordo Madaleno 1916-1985 (Arquine 2013).